EESL to implement country’s first rural LED street lighting project

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) will be implementing the country’s first rural LED street lighting project under the central government’s Street Lighting National Project (SLNP) in Andhra Pradesh. Under the project, EESL will retrofit 1 million conventional street lights with LED lights in gram panchayats (GPs) of seven districts in Andhra Pradesh. The entire upfront capital cost of this project is being funded by French development agency AgenceFrançaise de Développement. As a part of the project, EESL will carry out the entire annual maintenance and warranty replacement in these GPs for a period of 10 years.